BPN LEGENDS

"BARTNY OAK"
(Quercus robur)
(perimeter: 610cm. height:41m)

One of the most famous oaks the Bialowieza National Park. Its spectacular
17-meter trunk pillar is admired basically by every tourist group visiting
the nature reserve. 120 years ago in the wild beehive of this giant tree,
the last Bialowieza forest beekeeper - famous Pawel Buszko kept his bees.
Today, unfortunately, the tree is already dead- it withered around the year
2001.